proletarian

connected with ordinary people who earn money by working, especially those who do not own any propertyMarx hoped that the proletarian revolution would soon follow.There was a growing left-wing bias of proletarian sympathies among leading artists and writers.comparebourgeoisWord Originmid 17th cent.: from Latinproletarius (from proles

‘offspring’

), denoting a person having no wealth in property, who only served the state by producing children, + -an.